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- From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
- Subject: Re: PostScript "Editor"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.071628.12217@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 07:16:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.043251.15230@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu writes:
- >
- >I myself am interested in a good way to generate 2D graphs and haven't
- >found the sollution. Mathematica certaily is not. If anybody has,
- >please let me know.
-
- I've been using 'xmgr', which is a motif-based 2D plotting package
- available from ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu. It allows a lot of interactive
- control over graph formatting -- much more than gnuplot. It has
- some problems -- the appearance of things on the screen does not
- always match the appearance of things on paper. But with frequent
- use of a PostScript previewer, I can usually get things to come
- out the way I want.
-
- As a warning, I had problems building xmgr with the latest SGI
- compilers (3.10). The executable had some serious bugs, even when
- I compiled with all optimizations disabled. I didn't try too hard
- to track down the problem, though, because compiling with gcc-2.2.2
- seemed to fix the problems.
-
- - David Hinds
- dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
-